At least 20 manufacturers have shifted operations to states with friendlier attitudes toward firearms.
, among the country’s largest producers of ammunition magazines, left Colorado for Texas and Wyoming.The next year, gunmaker Kimber Manufacturing fled New York for Alabama.
“These states are openly attracting the industry. Some of them have been very aggressive,” said Mark Oliva, spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group based — as it has been for decades — in Newtown, Conn. The firearms industry is not a huge part of the overall U.S. economy, but it carries symbolic weight. Guns sit at the center of some of the country’s fiercest cultural fights, such as the reach of constitutional rights and worries about crime and violence.These days, the firearms industry is growing rapidly, shaking off years of tepid sales during President Donald Trump’s term.
Smith & Wesson was among the city’s top employers. It donated to local charities and helped sponsor the annual holiday lights display.“It’s a pretty significant impact,” Timothy Sheehan, the city’s chief development officer, said of the gunmaker’s departure.
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